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# Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home 

January 1997 • Published By Cato Institute 

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##### About the Book 

Should home buyers be wary of radon? Asbestos? Lead paint? Power lines? “The evidence induces skepticism,” writes Cassandra Chrones Moore in *Haunted Housing*. “Credulity and fear have created an atmosphere of hysteria inimical to reasoned argument, diverting resources, burdening the taxpayer, frightening the home buyer, and putting at risk the long-cherished goal of many Americans to own their own home.” Moore outlines the government-created mis-perceptions of risk affecting buyers and sellers of homes, tenants and landlords, brokers and agents.

##### About the Author 

Cassandra Chrones Moore is an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute.